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Professional Web Design

It’s almost lim­it­less, what you can do with a web­site these days and the inter­net has been around long enough now to show us, what really works for usab­il­ity and the search engines alike. In planXdesign, we like straight for­ward inter­faces, simple yet eye-catching front and back end nav­ig­a­tion and images you can eas­ily enlarge and flick thru. It’s also the little things, like quiet web­sites that you can choose whether to listen to the music or not and whether your per­sonal pref­er­ence is to click or scroll through a site? There are some cut­ting edge solu­tions around for all budgets and cri­teria. Choose a set of static pages or a CMS sys­tem, which is a web­site you can update your­self and can be used for almost any­thing, with thou­sands of wid­gets, plug-ins and themes available.

Plan­ning Stage

All good web­sites come from a good plan. If you want to cre­ate a good and solid web­site, you need a good and solid plan. We  know it’s hard to do but if need a hand, you could start by think­ing about answer­ing the fol­low­ing 6 basic questions.

On a piece of note­book paper, or whatever is lying around, describe your site. Take five to twenty minutes to come up with a pur­pose for your site, or bet­ter yet, call it your Mis­sion Statement.

Answer the fol­low­ing questions:

  1. What am I going to do with this?
  2. Who is going to read this?
  3. What kinds of inform­a­tion will I be posting?
  4. Why am I doing this?
  5. Who am I doing this for?
  6. How often am I going to be updat­ing and adding information?

Pro­ject Questionnaire

The fol­low­ing form is for when you are ready to make a com­mit­ment towards get­ting your new web­site made.

Your Name (required)

Your Email (required)

Sub­ject

To help us to cre­ate an accur­ate response to your inquiry, please com­plete this pro­ject sheet.
Answer each of the ques­tions as best you can, and skip any that are not relevant.

Gen­eral Information

1. Name of your com­pany and cur­rent or desired web addresses?

2. Briefly describe your com­pany.

3. What are the aims and object­ives of the pro­ject (web site)?

4. Who is the primary con­tact from your organ­isa­tion and who has final approval on the pro­ject?

5. Is the pro­ject being developed for a spe­cific date in mind? Eg. A product, or com­pany launch?

6. Please give an indic­a­tion of your budget. Please note, a ball­park fig­ure is required for us to provide you with an estim­ate. Without one, it really is very tricky to estab­lish the scope, and there­fore cost, of your pro­ject.

7. Who is your tar­get audi­ence?

8. What kinds of inform­a­tion will be on the web­site?

9. Why are you doing this?

Brand­ing and Design

10. Do you need a new brand design­ing?

11. Is the brand (exist­ing, new or redesigned) to be applied to a vari­ety of media? If so, what applic­a­tions will it be applied to?

12. If the brand is exist­ing, do you have any guidelines for us to adhere to? If not, can you provide some examples of cur­rent usage.

13. When we design a brand, or web­site, it’s often more suc­cess­ful if we can place it within the cur­rent mar­ket. With that in mind, can you list your com­pet­it­ors? Please provide url’s, or con­tact details for us to begin our research.

Research and Strategy

14. Do you have a busi­ness strategy for your pro­ject? (if yes, please skip this sec­tion).

15. Do you want us to help you develop the strategy for your pro­ject?

16. Do you have access to research stat­ist­ics for the audi­ence of your product/service?

17. If not, would you like us to help you gather some?

Con­tent and site man­age­ment (for web­site projects)

18. If you are rebuild­ing an exist­ing site, can you tell us if there is any exist­ing con­tent to be car­ried over?

19. Will the new site have a des­ig­nated admin­is­trator?

20. Are you already using a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem to power an exist­ing web­site? If so, which sys­tem?

21. Do you need a new con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem? If so, can you list the kind of fea­tures you will need?

22. In case you want us to be the admin­is­trator of the web site, how often are you plan­ning to update the web site?

23. Do you need an e-Commerce solu­tion? If so, how many products are going to be lis­ted?

Any fur­ther information

24. Feel free to paste your work­ing brief here, or elab­or­ate fur­ther.

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